Today is Labor Day. I am a Boston Criminal Lawyer. It is what I do in my days of labor. And so it seems appropriate to post this blog today, rather than this past Friday. Call it rationalization if you wish, but today we tackle the question to which I…
This has been a pretty bad week for you as far as the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog is concerned. Earlier in the week, you were facing two trials. Yesterday, you were arrested. The news is good and bad today. The good news is that you have not been arrested after…
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has been warning you it could happen. It has suddenly happened…and it was the last thing you expected. You (or a loved one) have been arrested. You came home tonight after work and, just as you were sitting down to eat, you received company at…
Yesterday, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog began its discussion about the Massachusetts murder case of Lauren Astley (hereinafter, the “Deceased”). The gentleman accused of the crime(s) is 18-year-old Nathaniel Fujita (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) We looked at the Woburn bail hearing which took place, including the prosecutor’s representations as to what…
This week in the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog, we have touched upon various issues involving Massachusetts search and seizure. Since I started this daily blog, I have warned you that, when performing a criminal investigation, police officers are allowed to mislead and, indeed lie, to a suspect. A short time…
Massachusett’s top judges, the Supreme Judicial court, among others, (hereinafter, the “Judges”) are based in Boston. And they are not happy. Angered at the budget cuts approved Monday, they have urged Governor Deval Patrick to stop appointing new judges as they now already have to close 11 courthouses and lay…
South Bosotn’s Whitey Buldger’s new attorney, J.W. Carney, Jr., has been heard explaining to the media that the government has had 20 years to prepare his client’s case for trial and that he has had the matter for (at the time) 5 days. From Boston’s Federal District Court to school…
Most Massachusetts schools are now closed for the summer. For some students, however, the ability to attend class ended long before the end of the school year. It is a problem that is not merely local, but national as well. Take 15-year-old Nick S, for example. Nick was by all…
Blasphomy! Yet, I heard it myself on WBZ radio this morning! Yesterday, the Casey Anthony jury in Florida shocked the nation, if not the world, by delivering a verdict of “Not Guilty” after her widely watched trial. Not guilty of killer her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. Not guilty of all the…
You know, when addressing to things like the long-sought capture of alleged mob kingpin Whitey Bulger, one really has to laugh sometimes at what captures the media’s attention. As you may recall, last week was a big one for Whitey (hereinafter, the “Defendant”), He had just been captured after evading…